DELA D100

DELA D100: USB optical drive for ripping and playing CDs

DELA (formerly Melco) D100 is a USB optical drive built on Japanese technology that reads optical discs, such as CDs, with great precision. It is used to transfer a CD collection to one of the brand's music libraries or to a hard drive, with an archive-quality copy of the data: the circuit board, designed by the manufacturer, is optimised for audio to give the best result when ripping CDs.

The D100 also works as a high-precision CD transport connected to a USB DAC. Its half-width chassis matches the N100 and N10 music libraries; the 2 mm-thick base adds rigidity and the 3.5 kg weight is almost three times that of standard IT drives. The mechanism is held firmly by the Highly Stable Storage System, the capacitors and power supply have a dedicated circuit board and a high-quality clock generator looks after signal transmission.

Connections and compatibility

There are two USB 3.0 ports on the rear: “TO HOST” (type B) carries the disc data to the music library or computer, “TO DEVICE” (type A) is for playback with a USB DAC. It is compatible with the N1, N5, N10, N50 and N100 series music libraries and with Windows 10 and 11 (version 22H2 or later) and Mac (macOS High Sierra) computers. Two finishes are available: Silver (model D100-C) and Black (model D100-CB).

Technical data

• Discs read: audio CD (CD-DA, read only); data DVD and Blu-ray (read only)
• USB ports: 1 USB 3.0 type A “TO DEVICE”, 1 USB 3.0 type B “TO HOST”
• Power supply: 12 V DC, with 48 W external adapter
• Dimensions (W × H × D): 215 × 61 × 271 mm
• Weight: 3.5 kg